Dark smoke billowed from the bottom floor of a multi-family home on North Main Street when Francisco Monteiro, 50, returned home Saturday afternoon.

His upstairs neighbor, Luis Barros, 28, was watching television just after 3 p.m., when the smoke began to seep into his third-floor apartment. He checked the kitchen to make sure nothing was burning and then went outside with his wife and stepson.

No one was injured in the fire Saturday, Deputy Chief Jerry Kenney said, though one woman did have to be taken off a second-floor fire escape by a ladder crew.

The fire started in a north side unit on the first floor of the building, possibly stemming from a light fixture problem, Kenney said. It was contained to that unit and quickly doused by responding firefighters.

Kenney estimated that the fire did $15,000 to $20,000 worth of damage. Two to four apartments on the first floor are not inhabitable. Residents on the second and third floors were going to be let back into their apartments Saturday afternoon, Kenney said.